Comment 5 for bug 72815
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| Stuart Bishop (stub) wrote Re: [Bug 72815] Re: Stop "rebalancing" karma, and base it on effort instead | #5 |
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Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> I don't understand why it's desirable to "encourage use of the less
> popular parts of Launchpad".
Because we want the community to handle support requests rather than
Canonical having to handle the entire burden. Karma's reason for existence
is to be a motivator, not just be a scorecard, and we should motivate people
to do work in areas that benefit the community rather than the traditional
areas of interest. If we find people are not bothering to report bugs, we
can bump off the score for doing so, or if support requests are not being
triaged, or whatever. The scaling was implemented as a temporary fix to
automate this somewhat until we had enough data to allocate the scores
properly (and the time to analyse this data...).
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